Gwangju Dong-gu to Host 'Statue of Peace' Flower Offering Event at Geumnam Park on 13-14

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Im Taek) announced on the 10th that it will operate a flower offering event venue where residents can freely offer flowers on the 13th and 14th at the ‘Statue of Peace’ in Geumnam Park to commemorate the Japanese Military ‘Comfort Women’ Victims Memorial Day on the 14th.

This ‘Memorial Day’ event will omit official commemorative events involving large gatherings due to COVID-19 and will be conducted as a free flower offering event while observing social distancing.

In particular, it is organized as a time to share issues related to the Japanese military ‘Comfort Women’ women’s human rights and the problem of violence against women illegally committed during wartime, and for students, it will focus on ‘a time of remembrance and education’ as a history we must remember and contemplate.

The Geumnam Park event venue will have a large banner installed behind the Statue of Peace, introducing the reasons for the designation of Memorial Day as a national holiday and its history, as well as the first public testimony of the late Grandma Kim Hak-soon.

Also, yellow butterfly sculptures symbolizing the Japanese military ‘Comfort Women’ victims will be installed around the Statue of Peace, and from the 12th to the 14th, the site will be used as a memorial place to remember the painful history.

Mayor Im Taek of Dong-gu said, “The late Grandma Kim Hak-soon revealed the pain and suffering of many victim grandmothers to the world through her courageous testimony,” and added, “Through this Memorial Day flower offering event, I hope it will be a precious time to reflect on the truth of that day as a painful but essential history to remember and to foster a correct historical consciousness.”

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